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Re: testing email deliverability... [message #186065 is a reply to message #186044]

Mon, 09 June 2014 09:30

Arno Welzel
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Eli the Bearded, 2014-06-05 06:53:

> In comp.os.linux.misc, Tony Marston <TonyMarston(at)hotmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> "The Natural Philosopher" wrote:
>>> I want to make sure that anyone using them has a valid reply address set in
>>> a web form BEFORE I forward the message on to the site administrators.
>
> I'd like to verify that the lottery number is going to win before I buy the
> ticket. Unfortunely I don't think either of us is going to be happy.
>
>>> is_valid_mail("user12345(at)gmail(dot)com")
>
> Did you think that you are the first person to want this? Think how useful
> it would be for spammers to find new email addresses before sending email!
>
>> You can use the filter_var() function at
>> http://uk3.php.net/manual/en/function.filter-var.php to check that an email
>> address is syntactically valid, but you cannot check that an email exists
>> without sending an email and getting a response back.
>
> I have NEVER seen a "syntactically valid" check that really works. The

This one should:

<http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pdw/Mail-RFC822-Address.html>

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		testing email deliverability... By: The Natural Philosoph on Thu, 05 June 2014 00:48
		Re: testing email deliverability... By: Keith Keller on Thu, 05 June 2014 01:40
		Re: testing email deliverability... By: Tony Marston on Thu, 05 June 2014 02:47
		Re: testing email deliverability... By: Eli the Bearded on Thu, 05 June 2014 04:53
		Re: testing email deliverability... By: Richard Kettlewell on Thu, 05 June 2014 08:13
		Re: testing email deliverability... By: Keith Keller on Thu, 05 June 2014 15:05
		Re: testing email deliverability... By: Arno Welzel on Mon, 09 June 2014 09:30
		Re: testing email deliverability... By: Eli the Bearded on Mon, 09 June 2014 23:08
		Re: testing email deliverability... By: Arno Welzel on Tue, 10 June 2014 09:08
		Re: testing email deliverability... By: Sam[1] on Thu, 05 June 2014 03:04
		Re: testing email deliverability... By: Jerry Stuckle on Thu, 05 June 2014 03:27
		Re: testing email deliverability... By: The Natural Philosoph on Thu, 05 June 2014 04:37
		Re: testing email deliverability... By: Keith Keller on Thu, 05 June 2014 04:55
		Re: testing email deliverability... By: Chuck Anderson on Fri, 06 June 2014 03:36
		Re: testing email deliverability... By: Jerry Stuckle on Fri, 06 June 2014 13:41
		Re: testing email deliverability... By: Denis McMahon on Fri, 06 June 2014 14:37
		Re: testing email deliverability... By: The Natural Philosoph on Fri, 06 June 2014 15:46
		Re: testing email deliverability... By: Keith Keller on Fri, 06 June 2014 17:39
		Re: testing email deliverability... By: Jerry Stuckle on Thu, 05 June 2014 03:05
		Re: testing email deliverability... By: AvdB on Thu, 05 June 2014 10:59
		Re: testing email deliverability... By: The Natural Philosoph on Thu, 05 June 2014 12:51
		Re: testing email deliverability... By: Adrienne Boswell on Thu, 05 June 2014 18:39
		Re: testing email deliverability... By: Eli the Bearded on Thu, 05 June 2014 20:46
		Re: testing email deliverability... By: Keith Keller on Thu, 05 June 2014 21:41
		Re: testing email deliverability... By: Adrienne Boswell on Thu, 05 June 2014 22:21
		Re: testing email deliverability... By: James Moe on Thu, 05 June 2014 20:14
		Re: testing email deliverability... By: Arno Welzel on Fri, 06 June 2014 12:11
		Re: testing email deliverability... By: Chris Davies on Mon, 09 June 2014 12:53

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